A question was posted in the Designers for Learning Facebook group about favorite “free” stock photos. As always, “free” is not always openly licensed, so read the licensing provisions before you use them in your work. Here are many of the responses: search.creativecommons.org Noun Project (icons and photos) Photopin Pixabay Unsplash Pexels Freepik Gratisography New…
I’ve resisted commenting on the flurry of posts on social media about the call for relabeling and redefining of professionals in my field as “learning engineers”. Why? Because it’s ridiculous – on so many levels. However, I will address the elephant in the room. From the best I can tell, the loudest call for the…
All of my websites are WordPress installations. I say I’m self-taught with a bad teacher. The good news is people like Anthony Hortin are in this world to help us out with the EasyWP Guide at a (more than) fair price! As noted on the About page: My aim for the Easy WP Guide was to write…
The Grantmakers for Education Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2018-19 survey results were released in February. It highlights education funding priorities, including the shifts away from K12 reforms to social and emotional learning, as well as postsecondary and early education. The Edfunders.org website has also aggregated the roster of associated articles that have resulted, including…
Missouri State University held a Web Accessibility Summit this week. While the Summit is over, the slides for many sessions are available on the conference website. Also, you can contact the presenters on Twitter and watch a few of the session recordings. Good stuff! Thank you for sharing!
Last week, the American Library Association (ALA) released the Libraries’ Guide to the 2020 Census. Released under a Creative Commons CC-By License, the guide is a joint effort by the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and the ALA. As noted in the release email, the guide contains information for library staff as they support patrons during the 2020…
Last week, I received an email that the Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition (CCLC) announced its adoption of the Illinois Digital Learning Lab. Here’s a link to the email announcement for those interested in applying either as a Lab participant or subject matter expert.
A couple of recent articles from Inside Higher Education remind us why those of us embedded in the research and practice of online learning need to speak up or risk the outcomes of others making decisions without us. An article titled “Plug-and-Play Online Courses: Innovation or Dystopia?” describes the consequences when instructors are handed a…
Congratulations to my “baby” nephew and his new wife! It was a beautiful weekend to celebrate Will and Annie Foy.
A couple of days ago, JR Dingwall linked to a very timely post by David Wiley that describes the attribution PLACEMENT obligations under a Creative Commons license. To be honest, this issue of where to attribute has always been a fuzzy point for me when you are using excerpts across a multi-page/sectioned work. I’m currently…